moscow accuses un chiefs of secretly preventing their own agencies from helping it to revive syria's conflict economy. teenage girl who escaped her and slave men from i saw in iraq claims she then came face to face with her captor in germany where she had fled for safety we have spoken to for. my boss called the police i told them i'd never imagined possible friend i still find her to be in germany however if the police were unable to trace his name. and an american defense of manufacturers a photo publisher the stunt backfires as a twitter users send in some home truths about the company's bombs in yemen.

are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now the united nations is being accused of secretly blocking its own agencies from getting syria's economy back on track the claim comes from russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov. because. it's turned out that the political department if the u.n. secretary it produced and distributed a secret guideline within the whole u.n. system in october last year it restricted the organizations within that system to take part in any projects on the reconstruction of the syrian economy our newly humanitarian aid nothing else well first of all we don't hear this kind of criticism for. directed specifically at the u.n. that often but if you really read into what he said you will realize that actually he is upset with what he called attempts by other countries to manipulate the u.n.

secretary it and this is absolutely unacceptable says the russian foreign minister the russian foreign ministry has already been touch with the secretary general they sent a former complaint about the alleged behind the scenes than the secretary of to take part in this syria restoration program picks so the question i think you a number of other russian colleagues about this reported quote unquote secret directive is always with this secret directive it takes me a while to try to find it's actually there is a secret directive but i expect to have an update we've asked some guidance and expected an update a bit later on this afternoon and i nothing new was. on the letter then there was also a question by our correspondent who asked sergey lavrov what he makes of the u.s. involvement or rather lack of involvement when it comes to restoring syria says

it's too early to talk about reconstruction efforts until a political settlement is agreed on what do you make of that knowledge schools some countries are trying to hinder the return of refugees or refusing to help reconstruction efforts it's counterproductive to set off officials conditions for the syrian people to return to their homes why. so much concern from moscow about this area well first of all russia has been a key player in syria and moscow is proud of its role of being in charge of the many reconciliation first that we have seen and also moscow's really been helping with rebuilding the economy and the refugees will not come back if the economy doesn't get restored the process has already begun the syrian government has just announced that as many as twenty five thousand syrians have just returned from lebanon and that is within four months and the devastated cities and towns are

slowly getting back to normal which or correspondent has seen with his own eyes. two years ago during the war we couldn't even open our shops the shelling snipers were everywhere you couldn't live under such circumstances we cover the roof of the building back then so that we could take cover it was unbearable we took shelter for about half an hour whenever the shelling started we just locked ourselves in here thank god now we can work peacefully day and night we just hang around smoking just like the good old days. joe you know the atmosphere is really good around here the weather is nice everybody is feeling safe and it's only getting better you can see getting better day by day. i was lucky enough not to leave my home high and this is the district the rebels couldn't get to at the time there was a blockade once but it was firmly defeated now saying god things about or despite all the things we've been through we're now better well things are getting better

and moscow is looking forward to other countries getting on board to russia says it's in their biggest interest as well and obviously they are counting on the united nations too and perhaps that explains the resentment of sergei lavrov. after escaping i saw imprisonment and fleeing to germany a girl from iraq's you have the minority says that she met her islamic state captor face to face not once but twice in the european nation we spoke to ash walker who shared her story with us. can't have more we were saudi seven girls captured by fighters and taken to syria the worst time in my life was the moment when i still separated me from my family they took us away from our mothers fathers brothers they even abducted eight year old girls they tortured us raped test sold us into slavery who were looking for gasland anything sharp knife scissors when we couldn't find anything to kill ourselves with we were trying to escape but they handcuffed

our hands and lax covered our heads and raped us they turned us into human shields when they went anywhere they took us with them so that the strikes didn't kill them . the way a large number of young women have been enslaved by i saw and sexually abused many are still in captivity. has i met a medic that does look at the. children by that i say. without providing an invaluable push but i know boring best summed up in a though that you want it bad. you know not is not. allowed in my lower level in the alpha would that a fellow. now

nineteen when she was captured by i so four years ago she was sold as a sex slave to one of their fighters after being abused for three months she managed to escape and flee to germany but once there she claims she was again horrified by two separate encounters with the same man who had been slaved. germany was willing to take in one thousand women who had excused for myself i went there to forget what i'd been through i saw a boo as i was going home after school i couldn't believe my tortured could have found out where i lived the next time i saw him was two years later a car pulled up beside me he asked me if i was and i said i didn't know he were schrock how is it possible that my rapist is living here and has the same rights as me my boss called the police and told them what he looked like and they scratched his face and it looked the same i told them there had been no other witnesses i

told them i'd never imagined possible for an hour to be in germany however the police were unable to trace his name well german prosecutors however say that the information provided by ash walk wasn't enough to identify the man fearing for her safety in germany she decided well to move back to iraq thinking i told my dad that the person who raped me it was in germany that i didn't want to leave there no matter what my dignity is more important than being in germany i put my life in danger to escape from i still retain my dignity and he wanted me to stay in germany knowing that the one who was responsible for my misery is free in that country all i wanted was to be somewhere safe but after meeting him i was afraid the whole time that he heard me again so i couldn't stay there anymore. or we contacted several german government agencies and of the police on friday to ask what actions they have taken if any we have yet to hear back but when we do we'll let you know what they have to say. u.s.

defense contractor lockheed martin has felt the wrath of the internet when a marketing stunt on a world photo day backfired spectacularly artist explains what made twitter users snap. the giant corporation known as lockheed martin had a plan for world photo day the idea was that they would encourage people on social media to tweet back at them what they called amazing photos of their products now keep in mind lockheed martin is one of the top defense contractors it works with the u.s. military as well as nato countries it produces weapons military equipment aerospace and other products used in military activities when requests are made for amazing photos of their products there was quite a response on social media dear lockheed martin you asked people to tweet amazing photos of my new products here it is this is a fragment of your bomb

a laser guided m k eighty two which saudi arabia used to kill forty children in yemen last week here is the product of your products the fact that lockheed munson has a generic happy to cool pretty is why all to me now on its website lockheed martin brags about its relationship with the kingdom of saudi arabia donald trump was able to arrange new weapons deals between saudi arabia and lockheed martin now many people on social media appear to be aware of the fact that a lot of the weapons and bombs being used by saudi arabia for its war in yemen seem to be supplied by lockheed martin now it's being reported that in a recent deadly strike in which civilians were killed including children it was actually lockheed martin that supplied the bomb to saudi arabia to carry out this strike.

following the response lockheed martin removed to tweet calling for photographs of its products now those observing the situation will wonder if lockheed martin will attempt to have this kind of social media stunt ever again in the future. an israeli border guard has had his prison sentence doubled to eighteen months over the killing of an unarmed seventeen year old the palestinian during a protest the incident happened four years ago and video released subsequently

showed that the teenager posed no immediate threat. and. well the original charge of manslaughter was reduced to death through negligence after a plea deal was reached in which israeli guard admitted to accidently using live rounds four months ago he was jailed for nine months which is that the lower and of the punishment term for such a crime he was also ordered to pay fourteen thousand dollars to the victim's family and israel insisted the boy and others had thrown rocks at the border guards minutes before he was shot and killed the officer claimed he thought he had loaded his rifle with rubber bullets but that it was actually live ammunition the

palestinian liberation organization described the sentence as unjust and fitting a pattern of discrimination. such a conviction represents israel was deliberate dehumanization of its palestinian victims primarily children israel employs an unremitting and lethal shoot to kill policy against palestinians when it comes down to the courts they always find ways to pass more lenient sentences they find gaping circumstances and of course one can always find the circumstances the accumulated effect of all of these incidents is that there is no big terrence against the next shooter the next soldier who either in a centrally or not so innocently will charge his weapon at

a demonstrator staying with palestine for the first time in eight years the palestinian postal service is back in full swing after mail had previously been halted by israel ten tonnes of undelivered packages and letters have been handed over that's despite an agreement not to intervene with deliveries going to palestine. there was a wheelchair there were some gifts that people had been waiting for other things were found like toys in the t.v. .

israel says that both sides came to an understanding about a year ago on postal deliveries but that did not result in a permanent direct transfer of mail to. the afghan fundamentalist group the taliban has ambushed three buses and kidnapped more than one hundred fifty passengers in northern afghanistan most have since been freed by afghan forces the raid came shortly after the president offered a ceasefire during the muslim holiday. daniel hawkins has details. the three month cease fire proposed by president garny is not the first such motion in afghanistan it probably won't be the last that has the blessing of the us time for peace has a better ring to it than war on terror regardless the taliban are firmly rejected

it instead continuing a countrywide military offensive. and i don't think. i saw my friend dying he was among thirteen people including children even women who were killed during an arab street last night and there is no attention from the government and no facilities for the residents going dead bodies are still on the roads things that i've also been injured. military commanders say the troops will only benefit the u.s. led forces they've also been clear no peace will be possible in afghanistan as long as the foreign occupation carries on and as coalition forces approach their seventeenth year of operations in the country how simple things seemed all those

years ago we acted and the taliban no longer is in power in afghanistan which is not only good for the security of the free world it is incredibly good for the people who suffered in afghanistan under barbaric rule a decade and a half later the taliban control large swathes of territory and are able to strike at security forces and civilians almost that will afghanistan has been a battleground for various militant groups something the u.s. views pragmatically the taliban are fighting isis and we encourage that because isis needs to be destroyed the afghan question has forced the u.s. to sway between a military solution negotiations with the taliban was such a hot cold rhetoric from the white house it's hardly surprising. the possibility of mediation as taking years to arise it's been quite a balancing act for washington to have the taliban willing to come to the negotiating table this is no talking to the taliban we don't want to talk to the taliban we're going to finish what we have to finish i want to reinforce to the

taliban that the only path to peace and political legitimacy for them is through a negotiated settlement the taliban trembles as a hero of the first. side of the border before the call for the taliban when their choices are to reconcile women or relevance. in september taliban representatives have been invited for talks in moscow alongside to government officials bypassing the united states if successful these could become a step towards the longest ceasefire of them all a permanent solution to a decades long cycle of violence something that today looks as this isn't as ever the afghan government just recently and the crucial rule by the other super powers in that region in the neighborhood of afghanistan is still russia of course is one of the strongest country and we can understand or maybe the afghan

government can believe that. it but to go in and mediating between the taliban and the afghan government there could be some more progress is in afghanistan because the different negotiation in the interaction between the afghan government and taliban it just on the very first speech. within the united states midterm elections now just a few months away the country's national security adviser has said china is among the states america fears could attempt to interfere with its political process. it's a sufficient national security concern about chinese meddling iranian meddling in north korean meddling that we're taking steps to try and prevent it looking at the twenty eighteen election those are the four countries that we're most concerned about well on saturday dollars also characterized to china as a threat saying it's a mistake to fixate too much on russia comments come as the trade to war between

the u.s. and china as collates fearing a high trade deficit donald trump imposed large tariffs on metal imports coming from china back in april the u.s. president then later twenty five percent duties on billions of dollars worth of chinese products are going vote who hopes to run as the libertarian party candidate in the two thousand and twenty u.s. presidential election told us washington is seeking to create fictitious enemies for the sake of political expediency trump is obviously using china as sort of this target to make it the new big bad guy the big justification he has had for at least steel tariffs is that because of the chinese government gives such a huge a subsidy to its own domestic steel production that we need to fight back of course he's going to want secondary justifications you know suggesting that china try to influence elections or whatever else the united states has a horrific record in foreign policy instead of trying to focus on the sins at home that we need to wash away that we need to do everything we can to improve the

u.s. government is creating one false enemy after another and using that to justified politically unjustifiable behavior. for us democrats have written to the white house to demand it released documents relating to national security adviser john bolton's work with foreign nationals over the past seven years comes after gun rights advocate many of boots and with whom both in had ties was charged last month with working as an undeclared russian agent. given the alarming and unprecedented nature of these revelations and the high level position of trust mr bow to no holds we request that you produce documents relating to whether mr bowden reported his previous work with this alleged russian spy on his security clearance forms or the white house vetting material prior to president trump appointing him to his current position well back in two thousand and thirteen bolton recorded a video for bullets in his pro-gun rights group while he was working as the head of

the national rifle association subcommittee the quick promotes extension of gun rights in russia but is being taken by democrats as for evidence of a kremlin influence operation in the us. or the russian national government to grant a broader right to bear arms to its people it would be creating a partnership with its citizens that would better awhile for the protection of mothers children and families without in any way compromising the integrity of the russian state the us government has alleged that maria boots are now formed relationships with leading n.r.a. members in an attempt to alter the republican party's attitude towards russia she has been accused of failing to register as a foreign agent with the attorney general. as pleaded not guilty to the charges against her and she is currently being held in jail moscow says her treatment almost amounts to torture and that the whole case against her is politically motivated. i suspect that what happened here is that. someone

probably sort of had an accidental finding someone was searching for something else and just blundered across it and thought hey we can use this now i don't think that there's a lot of chance that this is going to go anywhere and i'll tell you why the rush to get well has been so polluted by two years of telling the public we've got to prove you've got the proof no really we have the proof and then they don't come up with solid evidence or even not even solid evidence or any much evidence at all the democrats have really messed up they they've been talking out of turn they have not been able to come up with any kind of evidence or proof. of the of russia collusion so at this point i think most of the public has really tuned out. the muslim couple has been refused a swiss citizenship because of a handshake they did not shake hands with people of the opposite sex religious

practice does not fall outside the law the constitution and equality between men and women prevailed over bigotry but couple was said to have shown a lack of respect for gender equality laws and failed to prove that their readiness to integrate into society however they have thirty days to appeal the decision back in two thousand and sixteen a similar case took place in sweden that was when a twenty four year old muslim woman refused to shake a male interviewers hand when she had gone for the job the meeting was abruptly terminated however for a one thousand in compensation when sweden's labor court ruled it amounted to two discrimination incident has split social media. i've warned about this for years they immigrated into our countries and refused to integrate and then use our laws against us to impose their religious laws they shouldn't come to

a country they're to change there to change them to do if you come to a country you should respect their culture it isn't racist it's common sense well this isn't a law this is just a customary procedure she's not obliged to follow customs as against her we just believe you don't have an argument good you can't force anyone to touch someone if they don't want to she wasn't rude they employ it was rude. we debated the issue earlier on the program. you see if you're an employer in sweden like the guy who wanted to recruit a young interpreter and at interview this girl refuses to shake hands just difficulties to talk to him because he's a man because of our culture that doesn't work this guy doesn't fire her does not hire her and because of that isa blanche to pay four thousand euro to that girl one the swedes here that they say no on off out here they had the lady in sweden smiled

and made this guess china would have to know that even muslims should also add to their habits to the customs of the country they're living under shaking hands a suggestion of respect they should do with it but if someone is not shaking the hand but on the other side showing me that he's respecting me he's he's smiling in my face peace he's making a show of like it's not like this will ever what always also take the tension of this discussion away and try to find a way how we could deal respectfully with each other except in each other talking to each other and maybe trying to change some of these things in positively minute while i should stop talking about respect when they come to europe they have respect they have had respect for all the time but they should stop trying to influence the society to attain what their bigotry insists is absolutely necessary you should adapt muslims should adapt they have adapted for decades this form of

islam is not welcome in europe that's the perception of citizens and it's not only populist i think it's something like seventy or eighty percent of the population who believes that you know there are some values these values that are spayed they have the freedom of speech the freedom of changing their faith the freedom. to to have my own decision how i live but also the freedom of the. living on the freedom of faith so these are values that are in europe we should be proud of it and we should fight to keep them and not accepting anybody who is going to make any in danger is one of values and our democracy this issue with this young woman refusing to shake hands with a man this is so very much happening everywhere and it's not emotional the way europeans react this cannot continue like that either they adapt except the way we

live and they live with us and shake hands like everybody else or us they can go back to that country and the problem is look you're saying don't back to their countries and he can't just imagine that's what's thems are your opinions and they're living here maybe in the generation so i stopped to talk to us this way go back to the countries other countries ourselves properties we didn't come to could be belgium it could be great britain. former cia chief john brennan want to take donald trump to court after having his security clearance revoked brennan is one of the trumps harshest critics but has also been backtracking on one of his stronger accusations against the president. donald trump's press conference performance in helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors it was nothing short of treacherous not

only were trump's comments imbecilic he is wholly in the pockets of putin republican patriots where are you. as anyone look to the mistakes that john brennan made while serving as cia director he will go down as easily the worst in history and since getting out he's become nothing less than a loud mouth partisan political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to walk on. to protect the nation's classified information fulfilling that responsibility i decided to revoke the security clearance of john brennan. mean that each minute treason but it was

a terms i used nothing short of treasonous. they have president putin he just said it's not russia i will say this i don't see any reason why it would be. and should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. sort of a double negative. symmetry with u.s. intelligence that. russia meddled in the election twenty sixth i would say that that is true. at the start international be back in thirty minutes with more news stay with us.